There are many interesting features about this Coat of Arms suggesting
a link to royalty. The Lion Rampant is found on the Royal Arms in Gules ( Red). Another
link is the Tressure or border "Flory counterflory" which means a border showing
the Fleur-de-lys on outside and inside. This was very seldom granted to commoners,
although some families who traced their descent from Flanders, such as Fleming, used it.
The Lyon shown can also be "Canting" or "Punning" Arms. Bowes for
instance have for Arms an archers bow.

Lyon is not a name that figures in the more murderous aspects of
history, being content to thrive in peaceful interests, in later generations, education.

Glamis Castle is in Strathmore, and Sir John Lyon was the Thane of
Glamis in 1372. He married a daughter of King Robert II. He was a near descendant of the
Chiefs of Clan Lamont and his Arms of a blue lion on a field of silver were the reverse of
the Lamonts.